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The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will hear arguments in a crucial case about regulating mercury and other toxic air pollution coming from coal-fired power plants. At stake is a very dangerous precedent that industry profits are more important than thousands of lives. In late 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first-ever Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, to reduce the pollution emitted by power plants. Simply by requiring the worst-polluting plants to match the performance and technology of their more responsible competitors, these standards will prevent between 4,200 and 11,000 premature deaths per year. These public health protections already were years...

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The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will hear arguments in a crucial case about regulating mercury and other toxic air pollution coming from coal-fired power plants. At stake is a very dangerous precedent that industry profits are more important than...

For residents living near the U.S. Highway 441 corridor west of Boynton Beach who may have noticed ash in the area, you're not imagining things.
But an official from the Palm Beach County Health Department said there's a natural explanation for the...

The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County wants to import trash for the purpose of burning it in its incinerator. They argue that outside vendors should be permitted to pay less than county residents.
Our group opposes the importation of trash...

The operator of a Coconut Creek landfill and a group of nearby residents who say they suffer from its smell have reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit.The settlement would require Waste Management to do more to contain the smell at the Monarch...

South Florida frequently has interesting cloud formations, simply because our moist warm atmosphere produces so many big fluffy marshmallows in the sky.
But there’s a kind of cloud produced in the Earth's most frigid regions, and it's much more...

Expect a very warm - okay, make that hot - week with lots of sun, not much rain.
South Florida's Monday forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with afternoon highs in the upper 80s and overnight readings in the low 70s.
Central Florida's forecast: Mostly...

Getting checked into a smoky or musty hotel room can be a nightmare for travelers.
But one Davie outfit is aiming to change that with a new product that works to keep rooms smelling fresh.
DynoFresh, which carries the name of its manufacturer, is a...

The air cleared in South Florida Wednesday, as shifting winds shielded the region from smoke from a huge wildfire in the Everglades.
But the National Weather Service said the winds are expected to shift again over the next two days and may bring a repeat...

A Miami man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for smuggling more than 600,000 pounds of ozone-destroying chemicals into the United States.Brendan Clery, 34, set up Lateral Investments to illegally import hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 into the United...

Too much soot and smog remains in the air in South Florida, despite improvements over the past few years.
An annual report by the American Lung Association gives Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties mixed grades for air quality, although it...

The red-striped smokestacks at Port Everglades will be demolished in 2013 under a plan by Florida Power & Light to modernize its old, polluting power plant, the company announced Monday. The company said it plans to invest $1 billion to convert the...

Several people called the Gainesville police Tuesday night to alert then to a driver who appeared to be inhaling from an aerosol then and apparently passing out behind the wheel, reports The Gainesville Sun.
Callers told police that when they walked up...

Much of South Florida’s metro area was blanketed by a combination of smog and haze on Monday, the National Weather Service said.
The smog was the result of a temperature inversion in the atmosphere, trapping air pollution near the ground. The haze likely...

At Croissant Park Elementary in Fort Lauderdale, some of the classrooms were so humid and sticky, they created the perfect breeding ground for mushrooms that eventually grew from the floor tiles.
When custodians went to remove them in 2009, they...

Nine-year-old Lily Martin has been coughing for most of the last three weeks. From morning to evening and most of the night, it has been hack, hack, hack. She is pale and exhausted. Her mother, Sophie, is worried sick.
The child is not the only one...

A common pollutant in vehicle exhaust, power plant emissions and cigarette smoke can shrink white matter in fetal brains and cause developmental damage during the toddler years, a new study suggests.
In 40 children examined by researchers, prenatal...

Leaders of Beijing's bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics said Wednesday the capital's notorious air pollution will be much improved by the time of the games. The vice president of the bid committee, Zhang Jiandong, told reporters that air quality at the...

A group of bills called the "Frack Pack" announced Thursday by four Democratic congressmen would impose more stringent federal environmental regulations on a domestic petroleum industry lately suffering from its own success amid a persistent...

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and 10 other Republican governors are urging the federal government to drop a push for stricter standards on smog-forming pollution linked to asthma and respiratory illnesses, warning the proposed limits would harm their states'...

PALO ALTO, Calif. In 1999, then-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji said that Beijing's pall of smog "would shorten my life at least five years," a hazard level scientists affirmed two years ago with a study of China's air pollution. That reality...